Saturday, 25 May 2013

Detailed info on the First global map campaign.

After the grand announcement with trailers and all - new info has come out for the grand campaign.

The first stage is called "Landlords"

Here's the WG announcement. I'm marking points of interest.

Ahem - to quote.

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1.At the start of the first campaign’s initial stage the global map will be temporarily locked, starting from 08:50 to 13:00 CEST (GMT+2) on the 10th of June.2. At this time, a full wipe of the Global Map will be performed:

All provinces will become neutral

All scheduled battles will be cancelled

All chips will be returned to clan reserves and made available (their cooldown will be reset)

All spies and counter-spies will be removed from the map

Riots will be disabled. This also includes riots that have already started

Ransacks will be disabled

The income of ransacked provinces will be restored

3. The ‘Re-division of the World’ mode will be enabled. All provinces
available on the Global Map will receive the status of landing province
and will be available for landing applications.4. All battles during ‘Re-division of the World’ will be performed on Tier I vehicles.
5. During ‘Re-division of the World’ the maximum number of
applications for each landing tournament will be limited to 32. Every
hour, the system will randomly shuffle last turn’s applications and add
them to the end of the accepted applications. Once the limit is reached,
all applications beyond 32 clan-participants will be cancelled. All
chips used for such unsuccessful applications will be sent to the clan’s
reserve without additional penalties (no cooldown).Please note that NPC’s (neutral province owners) will lose in the case of a draw in the final battle with the landing clan.
6. The colour of the province background will chang from grey to pink
and red, as available landing slots are filled. More clans applying for
the same tournament will result in the colour changing to a darker red.
7. The global map will be closed for players on June 11th for one hour in order to start the stage.
8. The ‘Re-division of the World’ mode will be turned off. All
standard provinces will lose their ‘landing’ status and all chips that
have not participated in landing tournaments will be returned to the
clan’s reserve without additional penalties. The number of applications
for each landing tournament will be extended to 256.
9. Victory points will be credited to all clans that have conquered
at least one province during ‘Re-division of the World’. Clans will
receive 1000 Victory points for each province owned.
10. Victory points will be credited to all clans that own provinces
when the ‘Re-division of the World’ mode is disabled. All key provinces
will have a 6 000 Gold daily income and have a special icon:

5 000 Victory Points for each regular province

15 000 Victory Points for each ‘key’ province

A List of ‘key’ provinces may be found below:

Arkhangelsk Region (East)

Tatarstan

Stalingrad

Najaf

Southern Finland

Kiev Region

Transylvania

Thrace

El Alamein

Finnmark

Stockholm

Mazovia

Brandenburg

Central England

Switzerland

Lazio

Castile-La Mancha

Mascara

An Nuqat al Khams

Western Al Wahat

El Aaiún

Western Adrar

Louga

Centre-Ouest Region

Bauchi

Northern Agadez

Fada

Eastern Cameroon

11. Automatic Victory Points distribution is enabled for each step until the end of the stage. Rules are as follows:

Capturing a regular province grants 5000 Victory Points

Capturing a key province grants 15000 Victory Points

Losing a regular province takes away 5000 Victory Points

Losing a key province takes away 15000 Victory Points

12. During the first stage Tier limits will start at Tier I and will
be gradually increased during the stage. The schedule for these changes:

10th of June. ‘Re-division of the world’. Tier I limit

11th of June. Tier II limit

12-13th of June. Tier III limit

14-15th of June. Tier IV limit

16-17th of June. Tier V limit

18-19th of June. Tier VI limit.

13. After the first stage ends, Clan Wars will be locked in order to prepare for Stage II.
14. All clans that have owned at least one province during Stage I
will receive 500 Victory Points. This amount does not depend on how many
provinces the clan owned or the length of time they owned them.
15. Players of the clan that received the highest amount of Victory
Points by the end of Stage I will receive a ‘By Iron and Blood’
achievement. To receive this medal, the player has to have participated
in at least 5 battles in the first stage of the Campaign.16. Players of clans that have the Top 5 Victory Points scores for
the first Stage will receive a special clan tank (M60). To receive this
tank, the player has to have participated in at least 5 battles in the
first stage of the Campaign.We would like to draw your attention to the fact that all special clan tanks will be credited after the Campaign ends.

17. Special achievements will be given to players of clans that are
owners of specific territories by the end of the ‘Landlords’ stage. To
receive one of these achievements, the player has to have participated
in at least 5 battles in the first stage of the Campaign.

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Ahem. 2 main points - one - the tier limits. We fight with tier 1 to 6! Awesome. I can dust off my hellcat and associates.

And also - the bit with the special tanks. I am not sure...but as far as I can see you need to be part of the clan, take part in battles AND stay as part of the clan for the whole campaign to get an M60. That means the "hoppers" who'd join (or pay to join) a big clan to get an M60 will be limited. We don't know how many stages there are and a clan can't afford to pick a lot of average and bad players and let them play all the time. That could risk the entire enterprise.

Still - I find it decent at least. Its not impossible to win a landing in these circumstances and even hold it. A lot of small clans might get their first taste of global map gold. Don't forget that the event is, as far as schedule goes, staged to go AFTER patch 8.6, and in 8.6 its said a lot more global map regions would be open. Time will tell. There is barely 2 weeks until then.